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To email or not to Email, what was my question?

I am now in search of....
A pretty easily installed/configured Mail server that will allow me to send email using my domain name ie me@mydomain.com and also to allow for others (I host MUDS) to use theirname@mydomain.com.

Since I am really STUPID please don't try to offer a program that takes a Master's degree to work.

The problem with Courier-MTA is I am stuck at that sh perftest1 1000 user-test blah blah...

After 3 hours on an athalon 900 I still had zero messages anywhere.

Perhaps since I have it installed if someone can get me over this hump I will keep it.

Re: To email or not to Email, what was my question

I probably am Just missing something, but why arent you just sticking with sendmail/fetchmail?? They work beatifully. Since AFAIK, you still need to register your domain name I suppose there is only preference/security reasons to care about. But I am just curious as to why. No insults intended.

Re: To email or not to Email, what was my question

why arent you just sticking with sendmail/fetchmail??

Because sendmail is a monstrous beast and is a bitch to install and configure.

I once heard a quote along the lines of &quot;I always wondered why sendmail configs look like somebody was bashing their head on the keyboard, but after a few hours of working with it, I knew why.&quot;

I suggest you get postfix. Very easy to install and set up (took me 5 mins with no previous experience). Postfix is fully compatible with sendmail, too, so if you have any scripts or anything that rely on the presence of sendmail, they'll work with postfix too.